They focused on doing the right thing for the user base, for authors and for readers.
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First, you could examine all the reasons for authors, actors, or truckers used pen names, stage names, or handles, respectively.
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What self-publishing can do for authors is to document the sales potential of a concept that traditional publishers may have missed.
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That will be fun for nine book groups across the country, but it could be even more fun for authors and publishers.
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It went through similar ructions beginning roughly a decade ago, and a new model has evolved that makes sense for authors too.
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For authors the new business models guarantee far larger, sometimes more than fivefold, royalty rates as payments to publishers and distributors decline considerably.
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Four years ago self-publishing was viewed as the option of last resort for authors, where failed authors went, but this attitude is changing dramatically.
We have anguished a great deal on the three usual options for authors, feeling at times we were damned no matter what we did.
It will build on our publishing tradition, offering an extraordinary diversity of publishing opportunities for authors, agents, booksellers, and readers, together with unequalled support and resources.
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It pledged to slash more than 190 non-elected public bodies, including the Public Lending Right - which collects payments for authors whose books are loaned by public libraries.
It was his sense of himself as an outsider, as well as the difficulty of competing for authors in the early years, that drove him in a most unAmerican way to look for good writers abroad.
"The real problem I think has been that the usual promotion, marketing and publicity plans for authors with big fall books have been thrown completely into disarray for several weeks, " said John Baker, editor of Publishers Weekly.
Retail chains and bookstores are often loath to take that second chance, especially in light of the financial tightrope they have been forced to walk in recent years, and their reticence is understandably discouraging for authors and editors.
For authors and publishers, the agency model provides them with greater control over the timing of their promotions and higher per-unit earnings of 70% of the list price as opposed to 50% for the conventional wholesale pricing model.
Advancing our content in this manner is important for our authors and our readers and it will raise the bar on what digital reading can offer for years to come.
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For these authors, directors and talking heads, a college education proves far more common.
For unknown authors, however, it did not matter whether a book was praised or panned.
Unfortunately, such popularity (amongst other factors) makes Android a lucrative target for malware authors.
Powell's is also renowned for drawing famous authors to its stacks for intimate readings.
The artofwar website is one for the authors rather than the readers, strange to say.
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These books were published too late for their authors to weigh the consequences of the new intifada.
That is bound to create fruitful confusion among Indians and a wealth of opportunity for Indian authors.
These trends make it harder and harder for new authors to get established, and make an honest living.
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We will have to wait and see how this pans out, both for the authors and Harper Voyager.
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For their authors, these articles bring a goldrush of success, though it is tempered with a loss of dignity.
For Glam, acquiring Ning provides a place for its authors (and publishers) to create their own websites and social networks.
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It is easier, happily, for independent authors to get a book into online bookshops and to encourage word of mouth from fans.
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It struck him that there was no good, down-home outlet for Southern authors like Barry Hannah, Larry Brown and the late Willie Morris.
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